understandable

Example Sentences

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The public at large bought into those efforts with little skepticism in the understandable desire to have Latinos star in the American story.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Kelly: Has it all been quite surreal because there's been so much understandable hype around it... you getting to the record... when you were going to break it and the fact that you have.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

The Gulf Arab caution is in one sense understandable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

“With input prices soaring and rate cut expectations evaporating, it’s understandable why it is a poor performer,” he says.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

This view, while understandable, given the sensational media coverage of crack in the 1980s and 1990s, is simply wrong.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander